Stevenson Compare And Contrast

When people look at characters, they do not normally notice similarities and differences from character to another. In the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, a man named David Balfour goes on a life changing journey that leaves him a different man in the end. He goes to find his uncle and return home after crashing a pirate ship. Along the way he comes across a companion that he becomes very close to; Alan. In the end David gets his inheritance from his uncle and returns home with Alan parting ways. In another one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novels Treasure Island, it follows Jim Hawkins. Jim is a man who helped work his parents inn but quickly gets intertwined with finding a secret hidden pirate treasure. After many heart stopping

In Kidnapped, David prepares to fight off a pirate crew in the ship’s round-house. He is at the side of Alan but that does not defeat the bravery required to stand and fight. In Treasure Island, Jim was on a pirate ship listening to a conversation he was not supposed to hear. The shipmates were planning a betrayal against the captain and if they caught Jim listening in, he would have certainly been punished. The most obvious punishment would have been death. Silver says, “They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting cocks, and when cruise is done, why it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundred of hundred of farthings in their pockets. Now the most goes for rum and a good fling, and to sea again in their shirts. But that’s not the courts I lay” (Stevenson 59). Both David and Jim are very brave. David might have had a higher chance of being killed but that does not take away from the fact that Jim was still brave as well. Bravery does not always have to be shown through physical strength, like Jim spying on the betraying shipmates. Jim would have been punished just as bad as David if he was caught. These different events do not take away the characteristics they showed during the most daring of